About the job

Company Context

Sanofi's strategic direction is to standardize processes across sites, embrace digital transformation of its Manufacturing & Supply perimeter, simplify its current solution landscape, and leverage advanced technologies to bring business value.

The MARS (MES Accelerated Roadmap @ Sanofi) program aims to implement Computer-assisted batch review, enabled by the definition and roll-out of a core Manufacturing Execution System (MES). This program will transform Sanofi plants, improving compliance, cost, and cycle time performance.

Over recent years, Sanofi has deployed various Production sites across GBUs (multiple pharmaceutical processes, Weighing & Dispensing & full MES), with a second wave currently in motion. This represents a strategic opportunity for Manufacturing & Supply Transformation to:

Design standardized end-to-end processes to generate business value and deliver best-in-class solutions to industrial sites, with high focus on electronic batch record management & review by exception process

Deliver innovative "state of the art" tools enabling performance for manufacturing processes

Allow new generation of deployment – more Agile & business centric

Maintain robust and highly available solutions to operate industrial processes efficiently

Role Overview

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) DevOps Engineer drive the design, build, and lifecycle of global end-to-end MES solutions. You will ensure local configurations align with the Core model and operational excellence standards while guaranteeing and promoting the right usage of Sanofi Digital and Industrial standards for Processes, Applications, and Infrastructure environments.

You will leverage the Digital Portfolio's Detail Design documents, catalogue of services, and existing Core building blocks while supporting sites in troubleshooting and remediation action plans. Working in close collaboration with MES Product Owners, MES DevOps Manager, MBR Developer, MES Full Stack Engineers, MES installers/developers, Product lines, local digital teams, Business Process Owners, Archetype leads, Site modelers, and Shopfloor experts, you will remain current on company standards, Digital industry practices, and emerging standards while contributing to Digital standards maintenance.

Systems & Processes in Scope

Main MES Systems:

Siemens MES Opcenter Execution Pharma Product

Siemens Equipment logbook Pharma

Main platform :

Mendix

Business Processes Covered:

Master data management (items, user rights, equipment, locations, work orders)

Master batch record design & approval (including workflows)

Master batch record review & approval (by Exception)

Templates for elogbook

Instructions for Operating Text

Production execution

Weighing & Dispensing

Communication to equipment or SCADA systems

Equipment management

Material flow management

Traceability / Genealogy

Labelling

Reporting

Interface with ERP, quality, logistics & shopfloor systems (LIMS, Documentation, Deviation management, Serialization, eOEE)

Main Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

Understand business requirements (including analytics) for various processes, challenge, consolidate, and extrapolate them to design & build solutions expandable to multi-business unit use cases and plant configurations

Maximize customer satisfaction while minimizing build and maintenance costs and risks associated with fulfillment of business needs

Implement appropriate services to ensure optimal allocation of all available capabilities

Evaluate impact analysis of solution options and assess/manage associated risks

Conduct end-to-end business process analysis including integration with partner systems (ERP, shopfloor systems, automation layers), labelling technologies, and mobile technologies

Stakeholder Management & Training

Coordinate, inform, and ensure functional expertise in a matrix context

Transfer know-how, experience, and best practices to sites

Contribute to Digital skills development within your domain

Provide functional & technical support during the full solution lifecycle and to the sites

Ensure adoption and adequate use of solutions

Deliver on-site training to manufacturing sites

Delivery & Quality of Services

Design and build MBRs, Process Instructions, blocks, and templates including Functional specifications

Configure & implement core solutions as close to standard market solutions as possible, based on state-of-the-art best practices

Aim to align processes and enable industrial efficiency across different Sanofi industrial sites

Define appropriate design & build of solutions by adopting GxP validations

Participate in regular design reviews with site modelers to ensure best practices are followed

Perform or participate in regular MBR reviews for sites

Ensure technical solutions comply with recommendations for Quality, Security, and Accessibility

Lead the on-time delivery of projects while ensuring robust, cost-effective solutions

Safeguard proper deployment of core solutions on different industrial sites

Participate in defining indicators for performance and quality of service, monitor and communicate them

Manage preventive/corrective maintenance for components

Ensure standards and rules for Platform Management (Release management, Solution Documentation, Testing) are correctly understood and applied

Manage incidents & corrective/preventive actions

Strategy Development & Implementation

Remain current on technology trends and benchmark with other companies and partners to bring innovative inputs to solutions, operating models, and strategy

Collaborate with peers (Enterprise Architects, solution/ technical architects, Quality, Cybersecurity) to review and qualify solution design and/or introduction of new technology

Explain/present architecture and technical matters in an understandable way to Digital management team, staff, and business stakeholders

Break current GxP Validation established postulates to simplify and adapt to current and next-generation technologies & methodologies (Cloud, Service Management, Agile)

About You

Experience & Knowledge

8+ years of work experience in Digital for Manufacturing domain, with 5+ years of experience in MES, specifically Siemens OPCenter Execution Pharma and Siemens Equipment logbook

Demonstrated experience in multicultural/multilanguage environments and matrixed organizations

Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes in industrial plants

Strong MES experience: market standards knowledge (solutions, technologies, integration, architecture), process industry within life science/pharmaceutical industries

Experience & understanding of core product/model concept

Successful and significant Project Management experience is a plus

Technical Skills

Expertise in MES solutions: Siemens OPCenter Execution Pharma and Siemens Equipment logbook

Strong knowledge of Manufacturing Execution Systems, including Master Batch Record and Review by Exception business processes

Solid understanding of manufacturing processes in pharmaceutical plants

Strong knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP)

Strong knowledge of Digital technologies & concepts

Knowledge of Automation layer (SCADA, DCS, PLCs, industrial protocols)

Good experience & knowledge of Mendix

Knowledge of Scripting (VB/.Net) development & validation

JSON development is a plus

Knowledge of reporting tools (Power BI) is a plus

Soft Skills

Accountability and reliability

Customer-driven mindset

Fast learner, proactive, willing to apply change management

Ability to deal with ambiguous situations

Strong focus on value delivery, with ability to work autonomously on solution design

Ownership and leadership within assigned scope

Agile methodology practitioner

Communication and interaction skills

Ability to challenge, open-minded and active listening

Ability to explain complex matters in a simple and understandable way

Education

Engineering degree or Master's in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Language

Fluent in English, other languages are a plus

Working Environment

Travel requirement: 30% of time to manufacturing sites in Europe, North America & Asia

Global, matrix organization environment

Must be able to work effectively across different time zones and cultures

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!